Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium (2006)

Schedule

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, 2nd floor, M. D. Anderson Library

1-2 pm: Dr. Ray English discussed the scholarly communication crisis.
2-3 pm: Dr. Corynne McSherry (J.D.) analyzed copyright issues in the digital age.
3-4 pm: Dr. Peter Suber (J.D.) examined the open access movement.
4-4:30 pm: The speaker panel took questions from the audience.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Room 10G, basement, M. D. Anderson Library

9-11 am: Dr. Peter Suber met with interested individuals to discuss open access issues in more depth.

Speakers

Dr. Ray English has been Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries at Oberlin College since 1990. Dr. English has led the Association of College & Research Libraries Scholarly Communications Program from its inception. He has been a member of the steering committee of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) since its inception and currently serves as its chair. Dr. English edited the scholarly communications column for College & Research Libraries News from 2002 to 2006. Dr. English was recently named Academic Research Librarian of the Year by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

"The Crisis in Scholarly Communication"

Dr. Corynne McSherry is a Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit, membership-supported civil liberties organization working to protect consumer interests, innovation, and free expression in the digital world. Prior to joining EFF, Corynne was a civil litigator at Bingham McCutchen, LLP. While in law school earning her J.D., she published Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property (Harvard University Press, 2001).

"Copyright in Cyberspace: Defending Fair Use"

Dr. Peter Suber is a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge. He is the author of the Open Access News Weblog and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. He was the principal drafter of the "Budapest Open Access Initiative," and he sits on the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society and the Publishing Working Group of Science Commons.

"What Is Open Access?"